I’m Baptiste, co-founder of a Paris-based startup called Infinit (https://infinit.io/). I thought you could be interested in our product regarding the editorial on your blog.

Infinit is a beautiful peer-to-peer file-sharing application that allows sending unlimited size in just a matter of seconds through a single drag & drop.

It aims to enable creatives to be more productive by using a tool that simplify their daily work:
* Productivity: A 4 seconds sending process – Drag.Drop.Done –
* Peace-of-mind: Disconnecting from the Internet doesn’t cancel your transfer
* Fast: Our peer-to-peer technology allows transfers to be up to 30 times faster than the competitive solution
* Secure: Data are encrypted end-to-end to ensure the users’ privacy

Infinit is the best app to send files with peace of mind: click on send and your files are available to your recipient.

PS: It’s free and unlimited!

Features

Drag and Drop

Drag your files over the Infinit logo in the menu bar and voila, you’re done: your file is sent. Oui, sending a file on Infinit takes a second.

Direct Sharing

The safest and fastest way to send a file is to use our direct sharing feature which lets you send to other Infinit users or to an email address.

Link Generation

Generate a link to any file. It will automatically be copied to your clipboard, so all you have to do is paste it to share it in an email, in a chat or on Facebook.

Auto-Resume

Once you hit “Send” you have peace-of-mind: your transfer will automatically resume if you lose your Internet connection.

Auto-upload screenshots

Get links automatically to your screenshots so that you can share them easily when collaborating on design projects or showing off your work.

Media Player

When you share a link to a media file, visitors to your link page can enjoy audio, video and images without downloading them.

Reliable

Thanks to its in-house peer to peer technology, Infinit is the best way to send files with peace of mind: as soon as you click on send, your files are available to your recipient. No more double checking: even if your connection is cut off, the transfer is simply paused, and resumed when you come back online.

100% successful transfers

Fast

Infinit is the fastest way to send the files you care about, without ever worrying about their size. The app lets you send any file to your friends, coworkers or anyone else at least two times faster than any other service. Whether you need to expedite legal documents from New York to your partner in China or you want to send that ridiculous video you just shot in London to your friends, there’s no faster way to do it than with Infinit.

Secure

When you send a file on Infinit, your computer uses a peer-to-peer connection that directly links you to your recipient’s computer without using a central server. Infinit also secures your files by encrypting them before they leave your computer and cross the Internet. Your files remain encrypted until your recipient accepts them on her own computer and no one, including the Infinit team, can access them.

Want to get up to speed with Final Cut Pro X 10.1 quickly? Sam Mestman has published this FCPX 10.1 Cheat Sheet to show you the new features you need to know about.

Your FCP X 10.1 Cheat Sheet:

Well, it’s finally here. FCP X 10.1 is out… and some things are different. The big focus on this release was media management. And while it’s a boring topic for a lot of people, for professional editors, this was probably the biggest thing in the app that needed a makeover. I think what’s really happened in 10.1 is that Apple has combined the best parts about the new model they had designed with FCP X and merged those with all the things people still missed about FCP 7. In my opinion, they hit on the best of both worlds with this and really simplified a lot of FCP X’s media management without dumbing anything down.

But who cares what I think? You should try it out for yourself and decide, and the point of this article is to give you some pointers that will hopefully make your transition from 10.9 to 10.1 quite a bit easier… so without further ado, here’s your cheat sheet for FCP X 10.1:

The Big Change: Libraries (technically it is called a bundle, and there is .fcpbundle attached at the end of whatever you named it in the finder). So… before we dive into how to use the library, here are some of the benefits of the new library model:

1) Far simpler media management – confusing commands like organize event media and modify event references are now a thing of the past. You no longer need to worry about where your compound or multicam clips are located or whether something bad might happen if you pass a project between multiple editors. All you need to know is that as long as you’ve got everything in your library and it’s accessible from your hard drive, you’re good to go. Even better, it’s pretty much impossible to not have media from your project in a library as moving projects from one library to another brings all associated files from the project into the new library.2) Sharing between multiple editors is now really easy – Just put your media folder on a new drive, and then just copy your library from your drive, paste it onto the new drive, and maybe put the other editor’s name on it so you can tell the difference.

Then, hand off the drive to the editor. All they’ll need to do is open the new library in FCP X, and reconnect one file in in their library to the new media folder on their drive, and they should be all set. From there you can pass transfer libraries back and forth to each other with new projects, compound clips, etc. with no fear of being unable to reconnect so long as all the editors have all of the media.3) SAN workflow is MUCH smoother – In previous versions, you could do it, and it worked, but it was like having a Mogwai in Gremlins. You had to follow the rules or really bad things could happen. No longer. First off, SAN locations are gone. Just give every editor their own library, and then just keep all the media in a separate folder on the SAN which they’ll all be able to reference. Also, loading libraries/events from the SAN when you open FCP X is light years faster than it was previously.

4) Proxy/optimized Workflows are optional – When you move things from one library to another in FCP X, you get the option of whether you want to include proxy/optimized media along with it (not including it will keep your library small).

All you do is type in a desired user name, then click Link with your Dropbox. You’ll have to give Dbinbox permission, of course, after which you’ll find a newly added Dbinbox folder inside your Apps folder.

Now, just hand out your custom Dbinbox link. When someone uses it, he or she can drag and drop files right to the browser window or use a file selector. There’s even an option to send a message (which gets delivered as a text file), a nice touch.

For a little added security, Dbinbox lets you create an access code you can require users to enter before sending files your way.

This is a great little service that overcomes one of Dropbox’s hassles—few and far between as they are. There’s no charge to use it, though the developer does accept Bitcoin donations.

Sync just got sweeter

SugarSync 2.0 is completely reinvented and is now officially available to everyone (beta has ended). The new version has everything you love about SugarSync, but is now easier to use with exciting new and powerful features (only available in 2.0) such as: drag and drop sharing, cloud search, SugarSync Drive, and a beautiful new photo gallery. 5GB of FREE space trumps Dropbox’s meager 2GB!

Community Features and Hosting Capabilities to Be Integrated with Creative Cloud

Adobe took another decisive step into the cloud yesterday with the announcement that it had bought Behance, a social-media platform for portfolio-sharing among creatives with more than 1 million members. The move will bolster Adobe’s plans to bring a strong community element to its Creative Cloud offering, including professional portfolio hosting, the company said.

The future of Behance is now slated to include integration of private content-sharing capabilities, the ability to post works in progress directly from Creative Suite applications, the incorporation of activity feeds from Behance into Adobe’s Creative Cloud Connection desktop sync application, and Behance ProSite access (for publishing portfolios) for Creative Cloud members at no additional charge.

Behance CEO Scott Belsky will join Adobe as VP, Behance, reporting to Digital Media SVP/GM David Wadhwani. Behance’s scheduled 99U conference in New York next May will be held “with Adobe’s full support,” and support for Behance customers will continue to be provided by Behance staff, Adobe said. In fact, Behance said in a blog post (http://blog.behance.net/teamblog/behance-adobe-serving-the-future-of-the-creative-world) that its team would “remain intact” at its offices in New York City.

Adobe said users will continue to be able to use Behance without a Creative Cloud account, but the purchase definitely steps up Adobe’s efforts to make its subscription-based cloud offerings a kind of first-class ticket to the Creative Suite. Some users not on the subscription plan have started grumbling as software updates are being provided to Creative Cloud users first — a clear perk of membership. Earlier this month, Adobe said more than 1 million users had signed up for the Creative Cloud platform, including “approximately” 326,000 paid subscribers.

“When we launched Creative Cloud earlier this year, we committed that we would give members new value on an ongoing basis,” said Adobe’s Wadhwani in a prepared statement. “Behance will play a key role in Adobe’s efforts to serve the creative world in the years to come and will accelerate our efforts to enable a more open and collaborative creative community.”

SugarSync makes it easy to backup, share and access your files, anytime, anywhere. With SugarSync you get online cloud storage for all your files — documents, music, photos, and video. When you make a change or add files on any of your PC or Mac computers, SugarSync automatically syncs your files to the cloud, where you can access them from any Internet-connected device — including your smartphone or iPad.

Not only does SugarSync store all your data, it also allows you to sync your data to your other computers and devices. During set-up, you tell SugarSync where you want to keep copies of your favorite files, photos, or music and the rest happens automatically. If you work on a document at home in the evening, it’s automatically available on your work computer the next day. No more thumb drives or emailing files to yourself. Everything stays organized and up-to-date so you don’t have to think about it.

SugarSync’s online backup gives you the power to decide which folders you want to back up on any of your computers. As you work, your files are continuously backed up to your secure, personal SugarSync website. Your data is securely transferred via SSL and is stored using 128-bit AES encryption. Every time you make a change, your work is automatically saved to cloud storage. In fact, SugarSync saves 5 versions of a document so it’s easy to revert to an earlier version. With SugarSync, you just “set it and forget it.” All your data will be there when you need it.

Once your data is safely stored in SugarSync, you can access it anytime from your mobile device. SugarSync has mobile sync applications for iPad, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices. You can easily stream music, view photos or videos, or backup and access any of your work or personal documents — right from your mobile device. For example, show a friend your recent vacation photos on your smartphone, even if they’re stored on your home computer. You have instant access to your data from virtually anywhere!

If you travel frequently or often work on multiple computers or devices, you’ll appreciate the freedom SugarSync gives you. With SugarSync, you can easily view or make changes to remote files and documents from a mobile device, a colleague’s computer, or from an Internet cafe at the other side of the world. Just log in to the SugarSync website from any computer with a browser to access your remote data. Any changes you make will be saved and synced back to your other computers. SugarSync gives you the flexibility to leave your laptop behind and know you’ll always have access to your important data.

SugarSync makes it easy to share files with friends and collaborate with colleagues. SugarSync offers several ways to share information online. Create a “public link” with a single click that you can send out via email, Twitter, or Facebook. You can also share files and photos from your computer or your smartphone — very powerful if you are away from the office and need to get information to someone quickly. You can also share any folder with your virtual team and set optional password protection and sharing permissions. SugarSync makes file sharing and collaborating with your virtual team easy by keeping all your shared files and folders up-to-date and in sync.

Get started with SugarSync — the best way to access all your data anytime, anywhere. SugarSync is the most complete and powerful way to manage your most important files — from music to photos to video and all kinds of documents and work files. See a comparison chart to learn why SugarSync gets top ratings from the press and our customers. Learn more about SugarSync’s powerful features in the features section.

The free version of SugarSync has a 25 MB limit for public file sharing. Dropbox has no such thing. That’s a deal breaker if you’re going to be sharing large files (e.g. videos, source codes, design mockups).

Based on commenter testimonials, SugarSync appears to have much slower upload speeds. I’ve asked SugarSync if they throttle, and they say “No, it’s your ISP’s fault.” The actual transfer speeds of Dropbox and SugarSync seemed comparable when I tested them on my machine, yet it took me days to sync ~60 GB on SugarSync. I think it’s a queuing or infrastructure issue—speed may improve once SugarSync grows.

Dropbox has LAN sync, which makes syncing between computers on the same network much faster. It also uses less bandwidth for the initial sync, since it doesn’t have to go from your computer to the cloud and then back down again.

SugarSync lets you sync ANY folder while Dropbox restricts you to one folder and it’s subfolders.

SugarSync has a nifty music player that sort of rivals Amazon Cloud Player and Google Music (but much less full-featured).

I was happily installing the Mac OS 10.7 Lion update on my Mac Pro at home (Avid recently blessed Media Composer to run on 10.7) only to become somewhat less happy when I realized AirDrop, one of the features I was most looking forward to, won’t work with my Mac Pro. It apparently uses the WiFi built into the computer and can’t work through a network, even when the machine is connected to an Apple router. A little search verified that my Mac Pro won’t work since it doesn’t have a WiFi card installed.

Enter DropCopy. This little tool lets you “Easily and quickly send files and folders to multiple destinations across your LAN by simply dragging files onto recipients in a pop-up window.” Sounds a lot like AirDrop to me! It appears simple enough and even works quite simply. There’s a mobile version as well for iPhone.

Drag a file to the DropCopy “drop zone” (an animated circle that looks like an eclipsed sun) on your desktop and other machines on the network running DropCopy are suddenly accessible. The file then transfers to the selected machine and the file lands on the desktop.

Another really cool and useful feature, if you’re running a bunch of machines within a facility, is the ability to send a text message from machine to machine:

The text message then lands at the selected machine:

This is a really cool little utility and I can’t wait to test it out some more.

A “personal” license of DropCopy (for 1 to 3 devices) can be download for free from the Mac App Store or at the DropCopy website. They ask you to purchase a Pro version for $5 if you’re using up to ten devices. Site licenses which supports unlimited devices can be purchased at the DropCopy site only for $25. Check out the DropCopy FAQ for more information.

Dropbox has be getting some recent press with accolades of “the cloud for the rest of us” or “superbly implemented…file synchronization service”. That’s nice for them and I’m happy for the Dropbox team that they’ve managed to build an innovative product.

But there are a few annoying issues in Dropbox that aren’t often mentioned. These are flaws that are either inherent to Dropbox’s design, or have been in since day one. I’ve been a Dropbox user since private beta, and currently pay for it, so they haven’t stopped me. They definitely put a cramp in my workflow some days, though.

So in order of increasing annoyance:

5. File revisions are hard to access

Accessing revisions of a file can be done only via the Dropbox website. But the site can be frustrating to use and makes you go through each individual file that you want to restore to an earlier version.

A better solution would be native client integration in Explorer / Finder. Why not just right-click on a file in the Dropbox folder in the native client and get an option to view revisions and restore them if needed. This is already kinda there with the “recently changed” files list. But there’s no support for restoring deleted folders (even in the web interface), and only the last 10 files are shown, which usually isn’t enough.

4. Deletions Propagate Across Shares

This one is a doozy. Share a folder to someone, and then come back to it and realize that half your files in the share are gone. Why? Because someone drag-and-dropped (moved) files instead of copying them. Now you have to painstakingly hunt through your revisions and restore all the files you need, hopefully remembering which those are!

This could be fixed by providing finer-grained controls over shares. By default, deletions should not propagate back to the original sharer, because that’s a great way to lose files. This removes the “true synchronization” feature of Dropbox, but other products (Wuala, for example) have made it work.

3. Changes Propagate Across Shares

Similar to #4, but for file changes. Dropbox should have a way to enable shares so that only the file owner’s changes get propagated. When you do change something, simply overwrite the file in the shared Dropboxes. In one-way share scenarios, people who have the read-only side of the share shouldn’t be making updates anyway.

Adding the ability to make shares read-only should fix this. Ideally, the client would manipulate the local file system to make certain folders “read only”. But even just making it so that changes aren’t synced back to your shared files would be better than what’s there now (i.e. nothing).

2. Single Folder Synchronization

When Dropbox first launched, everyone was wowed by the service’s ability to synchronize a single folder. Fast-forward to today, and it’s frustrating and limiting. SugarSync and others support synchronization of any folder. So why not Dropbox?

All Dropbox needs to do is upgrade the client and back end to support it! It’s a long overdue feature, and will enable users to sync much more easily.

Finally, our Number 1 Spot goes to:

1. Files Shared To You Count Against Your Quota

The most frustrating aspect about using Dropbox is the way it double (triple, etc.) counts files against your storage quota. When I initially started with my 2 GB free account, it got blown up by my friend who shared a number of large, high-res photos to me. These photos used up my remaining storage, and then some, and I started getting error messages about Dropbox being full and asking me to upgrade my account. I eventually upgraded for other reasons. But I thought it very annoying that one person could effectively shut down my account.

Dropbox should simply not count files towards a “sharee’s” quota. Dropbox is already collecting the money from the sharer in many cases, so why penalize others. It’s not like Dropbox is storing multiple copies of a single file in their cloud.

Closing Thoughts

Dropbox is a great solution for many, including myself. But it’s not the only cloud file storage service out there and needs to watch its competitive back. I hope Dropbox will act on users’ requests on their official forums and implement fixes for some of these problems. But that’s my list. How about yours?

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About the Author…

Video Production Specialist

Mr. Riegel is currently a Senior Producer/Editor for a government contractor in Northern Virginia where he assisted in the creation of their media department from the ground up. Prior to that, he was a Senior Video Production Specialist and Team Lead for the Department of Defense with more than ten years of consistent production, editing, video and audio recording experience. Jeff specializes in identifying, developing and supporting new trends in visual media technology and other solutions.

Outside of the workplace, Jeff created a long form documentary about the rise of a local boxer, Tori Nelson, to six-time world champion status which aired nationally via the Sports Channel For Women and screened at The Alexandria Film Festival.

Jeff is co-producing "The Lost Clipper," a 15 year documentary about the first hijacking in U.S. history and the search for those 15 lost souls taken in 1938. Filming takes him to Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii and locations across the U.S. Jeff is currently working on television show promos with network production slated to begin in 2015. He enjoys creating a media-marketing social networking campaign for entities such as CapitalTristate Electrical Distributors and "The Lost Clipper" and personalities such as Tori Nelson and photographer, Frank Lee Ruggles.

Solving complex technical problems by utilizing a myriad of advanced audio-video hardware and software applications along with initiative and ingenuity, Jeff is eager to attack any project head-on.